Synonyms of animality

animality

noun

ˌa-nə-ˈma-lə-tē 

as in brutality

the manifestation of the traits or the gratification of the appetites of a lower animal

in his portrayal the actor emphasizes the working-class hunk's fundamental animality

Synonyms & Similar Words

• brutality
• animalism
• cruelty
• brutishness
• bestiality
• beastliness
• sensuality
• physicality
• carnality
• swinishness
• savagery
• barbarity
• sadism
• boorishness
• coarseness
• crudeness
• rudeness
• grossness
• viciousness
• wantonness
• loutishness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• spirituality
• intellectuality
• nobility
• magnanimity
• compassion
• kindness
• benevolence
• kindliness
• beneficence
• benignity
• high-mindedness
• greatheartedness
• tenderheartedness
• kindheartedness
• good-heartedness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of animality

In other words, humans can act against the animal component of their nature and manifest their humanity by rejecting their animality. — Literary Hub, 11 Nov. 2025

This strangeness causes all sorts of internal agitation, an uneasiness about humanity’s closeness to animality. — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2025

But also, something more intrinsic — something like her animality. — Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025

Kafka’s fiction is full of animals who resemble people and people who lapse into animality. — Becca Rothfeld, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023

The study ventures into the intricacies of scientific and quasi-scientific debates in the 19th century, and treats 19th century science as embedded in a myth featuring divinity, humanity and animality as principal characters. — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2012